Silence on RCI a slap for Sabah BN parties

Sabah DAP wants PBS, Upko and PBRS "to whisper to their supporters" to back Pakatan Rakyat in the 13th general election.

KOTA KINABALU: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s silence on the calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the massive population of illegal immigrants and dubious voters in Sabah during his two-day visit to the state is a big slap in the face of the non-Umno state Barisan

Nasional (BN) component parties, Sabah DAP charged.

Sabah DAP chief Jimmy Wong added that BN partners – PBS, Upko and PBRS – have been rendered irrelevant by the Prime Minister.

This was in view of the fact that PBS deputy president and federal minister Maximus Ongkili and Upko president and federal minister Bernard Dompok had publicly proclaimed that the PM would announce the setting up of the RCI during his state visit last week.

“The failure to hear such announcement from the PM is a big blow to all the BN component parties including Umno who had agreed to the RCI,” said Wong.

He said Sabah DAP had already cautioned the non-Umno BN component parties that Umno’s recent agreement to the setting up of the RCI, which was announced by its information chief, was just lip-service.

“We have asked PBS and Upko not to count the eggs before they are hatched. It would be a political suicide for Umno to agree to the RCI,” he said.

Wong said the only way for the non-Umno state BN component parties leaders to redeem their dignity is to support Pakatan Rakyat in this coming 13th general election.

“We urge leaders of PBS, Upko, PBRS and LDP to whisper to their supporters to vote for Pakatan Rakyat.

“They must realise that Pakatan Rakyat will quickly establish the RCI without any begging by the people when it takes over Putrajaya,” he said, adding that in order to achieve this, “Sabahans must be united and to support Pakatan Rakyat”.

“We must halt the process of reverse takeover at all cost. It is no easy task to topple the Umno government but with solidarity and a common purpose we will at least deny Umno its two-thirds majority in the State Assembly and return a reasonable number of MP seats to facilitate the takeover of Putrajaya by Pakatan Rakyat.

“We are optimistic that a change in the federal government will usher well for the future of Sabah and its local inhabitants,” he said.

Open secret
Wong, who is also the Sri Tanjung assemblyman, reminded Sabahans and BN component parties that currently there are officially about 889,799 foreigners in Sabah.

“It has been reported that Sabah’s population as of 2010 was about 3.2 million and 27% comprised foreigners. We have seen many government amnesties to legalise them.

“The most painful and deepest cut is when the government started to confer them with Malaysian citizenship.

“There is ample proof of such treasonous activity already written and publicly spoken by authors M D Mutalib and Dr Chong Eng Leong.

“Even ex-ISA detainee Jabar Khan who was involved in the IC project has written a paper to show the modus operandi and who and who were involved in the project.

“It is an open secret that the few current top Umno leaders in Sabah are the prime movers in the IC project,” he pointed out.

Due to this, he said, it would be unthinkable for Najib to ever assent to the establishment of an RCI the matter.

Dompok was quoted in the local media as saying that Najib would announce the RCI at the right time.

“The Cabinet has decided that the prime minister will be the one to talk about this matter at a more opportune time,” said the Plantation, Industries and Commodities Minister.

“I cannot say anything more about it,” he added.